If Tyler is a Klingon, or a human traitor, he didn’t help Mudd’s plan along even when he knew it would benefit the Klingons. And conversely, if Tyler is a spy, the Klingons didn’t seem to share that information with Mudd.

DS9's stagette for Dax wasn’t bad, as far as fake parties go.

The secret Burnham tells Stamets so Stamets can convince her they’ve talked before on the next loop is that she’s never been in love. As secrets go, that’s not exactly unguessable.

Yeah. The real novelty was to have a time loop episode that focused more on character development than plot development when resolving the problem.

I had always theorized that Stella wasn’t nearly as horrible as her android made her out to be. That was just Harry’s POV.

For any show other than Trek, the resolution wouldn’t have worked. But this is Trek, and therefore, the resolution was exactly the kind of writing I was hoping would make it into Discovery. Like it or not, it was authentic to the universe.

-Not counting Kirk’s barfight in the Kelvin Timeline, this is the first party that felt like a party in “Star Trek.” Every other “party” in Trek seemed so elitist with classical music while people sipped champagne. These actually seemed like people who wanted to have fun and sex and a good time. Also, I love that we…

This was clever, romantic, and fun. Very good pacing.

I think it’s quite likely that if Tyler really is Voq, then there was a real Ash Tyler that was captured at the Battle of the Binaries, and they had some method of extracting his life experience and memories or transferring Voq’s consciousness into him, making him sort of like a Goa’uld from Stargate. In control, able…

More than the technology (which I don’t mind) or the aesthetics (I would like it if they kept the lights on) or the lack of clear character dynamics (give ‘em time), Lorca’s authority to offer permanent battlefield commissions to anyone and everyone really strains credulity to me.

Burnham’s position is already a bit…

Sisko said it prior to entering a battle, perhaps its use here is to indicate that Lorca never really anticipated peace.

Hm, I forgot about them.

I was wondering if this means that the Enterprise crew of the era had tee-shirts with ENTER stamped across the chest.

Sigh. Me afraid me have to agree. And me loved Zack’s reviews of earlier Trek series — they one of favorite things AVC ever did. But me very frustrated with Star Trek fans who not willing to let new show be new show and not retread of everything that came before.

Oh, FFS, grow up.

Lorca saying “fuck” during some sort of hell yeah moment would have been trying to be edgy. The little red-haired girl saying it in a moment of giggling joy is pretty fun.

One general criticism in fiction that I’ve always had a hard time fully understanding is that people “say how they feel instead of showing”. I’m not saying it’s not a valid criticism, but wanting characters to always behave that way isn’t necessarily always true to life. I’m the kind of person who is regularly open…

Fuck the haters. I love this show. It presents the world of Star Trek in a very different package, but that’s much more refreshing than them doing a TNG rehash. It moves at a very fast pace, which I’m fine with. The characters are all interesting and consistent (Except for some small gripes I had with Saru in this…

I would just like to welcome aboard our new Klingon crew member Lt. Ash Tyler aboard the USS Discovery, may you cause mayhem and destruction and a few deaths in your time aboard the discovery.

The “Choose Your Pain” trial applies to both the A and B plots; Stamets chooses his own pain over the tardigrade’s.